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Rick Ross: ‘What did Keith Raniere take from Scientology for Nxivm? Everything.’

[Rick Ross]

 We first heard about Nxivm and Keith Raniere more than a dozen years ago and from Rick Ross, an Arizona cult expert we’ve known since 1995. []

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Jerry Minor didn’t get quite the star-turn he deserved on the ‘Aftermath’ JW special

 Leah Remini’s JW special was outstanding, there’s simply no doubt about it. But it dawned on us later that the program did miss out on one opportunity, and that was to make a slightly bigger deal about one of its guests. []

Keith Raniere attorney assures judge she can avoid conflict with father Mark Geragos

[Teny Geragos and Keith Raniere]

There’s a fun new letter in the Nxivm case file to Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis from Keith Raniere’s lead attorneys asking the judge to look past the odd situation involving Raniere’s lawyer Teny []

Shannon Rowland on the JW paradox: ‘You’re set up for failure, but too terrified to leave’

 We were really impressed by Shannon Rowland’s appearance on the Aftermath Jehovah’s Witnesses special, so we decided to ask her about []

Lloyd Evans on ‘Aftermath:’ The most significant TV journalism ever done on JW

 We finally got a chance to catch up with Lloyd Evans to ask him about his appearance on Leah Remini’s special Aftermath episode about Jehovah’s Witnesses. []

Let’s start off our new Nxivm watch with that chock-full indictment, shall we?

[Keith Raniere, Clare Bronfman, Allison Mack, Lauren Salzman, Nancy Salzman]

We’ve long had an interest in Keith Raniere and Nxivm. Way back in 2007, we edited a cover story at the Village Voice about Raniere that we were put onto through Rick Ross, someone we had written about in Arizona in 1995. []